HTML Entities

HTML Entities

Some characters are reserved in HTML.
It is not possible to use the less than (<) or greater
than (>) signs in your text, because the browser will mix them with
tags.
To actually display
reserved characters, we must use character entities in the HTML
source code.
A character entity looks like this:

&entity_name;
OR
&#entity_number;

To display a less than sign we must write: &lt;
or &#60;

Non-breaking Space

A common character entity used in HTML is the non-breaking space (&nbsp;).
Browsers will always truncate spaces in HTML pages. If you write 10 spaces in
your text, the browser will remove 9 of them, before displaying the page. To add spaces to your text,
you can use the &nbsp;
character entity.